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Wednesday, September 19, 1934

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The Headlines

LOTTERY AND RELIEF TAXES VOTED BY CITY ASSEMBLY; MAY YIELD ONLY $15,000,000; NEED PUT AT $50,000,000 Long-Term Borrowing Looms to Make Up the Amount. DEUTSCH SCORES LOTTERY. Refuses to Give His Approval to 'Municipal Gambling' -Mayor Doubts It Is Legal. HEARING ON TAXES SEPT. 25 With New Revenue in Prospect Chance for Loans Brightens -- Checks Sent to Needy. RELIEF PROGRAM APPROVED BY CITY

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Blue Moon

Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

The must-have

Sorry! (Board Game)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

damefellaswelllousy

Hardboiled

clip jointgriftershamusgunsel

Swing Era

alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove

Catchphrases of 1934

  • It happened one night

Tech Check

Cat's Eye Road Studs, Telex & Hammond Organ.

Cost of Living (1930)

Loaf of Bread

$0.09

Gallon of Gas

$0.20

Average Home

$3,900

New Car

$640

Time Elapsed

33,497 days ago

(91 years, 282 days)